skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring is hard. There's big upside to getting it right, big downside to getting it wrong.

Getting hired is hard. Between the qualifications, experience, leetcode nonsense, low barrier to entry, and the sheer number of unemployed floating around, its hard to stand out (in a good way.)

Both sides hate the system. Good people go unnoticed. Bad people end up wasting time and resources.

I'm not sure 'randomness' is the answer (especially if you're the best person for the job but you are beaten out by random-bad-luck.)

That said there's already a lot of randomness in the system. We often have a post that could easily be filled by 3 or 4 candidates. But we only need 1. At that point there's some psuedo-randomness involved - a decision has to be made and a bunch of perfectly capable people will be disappointed.
In case anyone asks, "why don't they just build more Atlas V rockets," it's because they rely on Russian engines which have been phased out due to politics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180
oh THIS is why image byte order and dimensions are so confusing every time i fuck with opencv and pygame

well, half of why. for some reason i keep doing everything directly on /dev/fb0
15 years ago apple was proudly announcing they were integrating Facebook accounts into iPhone OS and making their APIs available to apps, to thumb their nose at Google. (iPhone OS 4, IIRC)

That's part of why Facebook felt rightfully indignant when Apple moved to kneecap attribution and acted like it had never heard of it
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MarsCode provides an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) and an AI extension to assist your programming tasks.
MarsCode IDE is an AI-powered Cloud IDE. The built-in AI Assistant and the out-of-the-box development environment let you focus more on the development of various projects.
To assist the creation of cloud functions, MarsCode IDE also provides a series of capabilities covering code generation, debugging, storage, deployment, schema generation, and more, which greatly reduces development costs.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to report these points:

* I obviously cannot argue with you on the UI, it really needs some serious overhaul. I've been struggling because the images all come from Amazon listings and have no standard "graphical identity" so it always ends up looking like a giant bazaar of random items. The blowout tile was a test to make things pop but I agree it's not good.

* Noted on the zoom looking awful I'll change that too :-)

* Yeah every once in a while some items will register the wrong price so you get these funky percentages. For example I saw a pc registering at $1 for the average price so the computer discount is nonsense. The filters and sorting make those outliers raise to the surface. This should be easy to fix though with an automation to detect incoherent values and recapture prices. The number of occurrences seems to be low overall (i.e. 50ish out of 120k) but it looks amateurish if you sort on price/discount

Thanks again for the feedback it's very useful!
The article specifically says “A large number of these funds are seeing veterinary medicine as a good profit center” which is exactly what I said and fairly obvious. You can’t tell me the article is right one minute and wrong the next.

The article is very poorly written, it says they have spent billions on veterinary practices, dog food brands, and pet insurance companies. Two of these things are not like the others. You’d have to buy a whole lot of veterinary offices, like all of them, to get into the billions. It’s probably an insignificant sum relative to the others.

And all of it just shows they think the pet industry is going to continue to do well. If they’re trying to flip real estate, they are going about it in a really stupid way.

And you just proved my point was for the big chains rather than individual practices like what is happening in the veterinary industry.

Also the second link says they are buying up mental health because of anticipated continuing long term demand, which is exactly what I said PE is doing here. I like that you argue against yourself for me. You’re worried about if I’m arguing in bad faith, you’re just arguing badly.
Uptime might be somewhat ephemeral, but it can be a pretty clear signal to indicate that two different user profiles are actually the same person. For example, it would be a plausible explanation for why even when I took several steps to hide my identity when creating a new Meta account (new Safari profile, tracking blockers, VPN, anonymous email account, etc), Facebook immediately suggested all of the contacts from my other account as friends. Or perhaps they picked up on some other signal. My point is, I absolutely don't consent to my devices sending their uptime to third parties without explicitly asking me every time.
The thing is, it's not even remotely close.

SpaceX had 98 launches in 2023.

ULA, the closest competitor, had 3.

For all of these others, considering that this article is from 2022, how many of them even still exist?

Don't get me wrong, I hope SpaceX gets some stiff competition because I believe that competition breeds innovation. At the moment, however, I have no idea where that is going to come from or when it might reasonably come.
Video didn't play on Firefox. I had to hit the "pop-out" icon to show it separately, at which point it showed the regular video controls (which should have shown in the first place, right?). If I didn't read the comments here, I wouldn't have realized this was a video.

An audio track narrating what's happening would be nice, although it's pretty clear from the video what's happening, which is great!

One question: how do you display functions that are more than a dozen lines long? Do they get shown in a scrollable window, or does the window get auto-sized to show the entire function (which, IMHO, would be bad if the function was huge)?
> The last thing anyone needs when caring for their pet is a government bureaucrat handing out human-medicine style hospital monopolies to a "partnered provider" knighted by the government which will force a 100x billing charge to bill the govt and make it illegal to not have pet insurance while driving your premiums up 100x over the next 30 years.

Do you really think this is what people want when they call for increased government regulation?

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Government regulation can take many forms, not all of them dystopian, and many of them leading to better outcomes. Sadly there are a lot of people, even here in the comment section, for whom, when you say "government regulation," their imagination jumps to the worst possible form of government regulation they can think of, and they project that imagined scenario on the person who said it. There are no doubt many ways the government can rein in the excesses and abuses of private equity without leading to hospital monopolies and forced purchases of pet insurance.
As I told you hours ago in response to your other false claims, some of Pulsar's contracts are publicly disclosed and go back years. This isn't a "new delivered capability", that is just another instance of you making something up that has nothing to do with reality.

Doubling down on this is really dumb, Anduril obviously wouldn't be publicly stating that Pulsar has deployed to combat if it wasn't true. Your critique isn't just wrong, it doesn't even make sense.
There won't ever be enough vets to create a functioning market. And most have to go into agriculture anyways.
I work for a PE-owned company in another industry. My wife is a veterinarian, and I wrote my thoughts on those who complain about veterinary costs in another comment. You can't possibly accurately estimate how much SAGE is pulling in at that location. Not even other vets can do this. There are too many variables.

As far as PE goes, thank fucking God PE is cleaning up my company and industry. This has been a good ol' boy network, full off incompetence, favoritism, and nepotism. PE are buying players and it's crashing down. Long time execs who haven't have an original thought in 20 years are being forced to retire. A female VP in my company left because a consultant called her "too emotional" recently, and the idiot CEO listened. He's close to getting canned, too. We're losing customers left and right because his old school, "feed 'em hookers and blow" playbook (dead serious) doesn't work any more.
The post says "almost 20% of Apple's profit", and you note the profit was $100B and the payment was $20B, making it 20% - is something going over my head?
Numpy was originally designed for mathematicians and scientists, and in those domains convention often lines up better with column major order. For example, vectors are a single column, and the column index comes before the row index in many notations. So using column major order meant familar formulas and algorithms (including translating from fortran code which is column major, or matlab for that matter) are easy to translate to numpy code.

Also, numpy is built on some fortran libraries, like BLAS and LAPACK that assume a column major order. If it took row major input, it would need to transpose matrices in some cases change the order, or rewrite those libraries to use row major form.
Yes, the second edition is much longer and adds nothing of value.
> things get complicated with virtual threads, they shouldn't be pooled, as they aren't a scarce resource

Why not pool virtual threads, though? I get that they’re not scarce, but if you’re looking to limit throughput anyway wouldn’t that be easier to achieve using a thread pool than semaphores?
Compared to other recent conflicts like Iraq and Checnya war etc, the collateral damage in Gaza is pretty good. Israel have done a good job at minimising civilian deaths, if Hamas didn't frustrate the civilians efforts to evacuate or let civilians shelter underground with them, the numbers would be a lot lower still.
> When that one customer is "your family", it's a little bit different, though.

I think it makes it worse.
Well, my comment wasn't aiming towards the technical details (which I even agree!), but more about the social background, with people considering other people who "just send green text" as "lesser". And no, it's not just the "young people crowd", but a certain part of society.
Plus, the production lines for Atlas V have already been retooled with those for Vulcan, so even if they did have the engines, they couldn't make the rockets.

IIRC ULA did have a license to manufacture their own domestic RD-180s (or was considering getting it), but the factory for those would've been very expensive and not worth it with Vulcan in its early design stages.
The arrival of China in South Asia, the withdrawal of the U.S. from the region, and India’s tilt to the Indo-Pacific have shifted the regional balance of power in Beijing’s favour. Sensing this new power equation, South Asia’s smaller powers, India’s neighbours, are engaged in a range of strategies: balancing, bargaining, hedging and bandwagoning. India’s smaller neighbours seem to find China as a useful hedge against India, for the moment at least.

I'm not sure what withdrawl they mean. The US withdrew from Afghanistan, but that is clearly Central Asia and not South Asia (unless it's defined differently in India?).

The US has withdrawn from other regions, especially the Mideast, in order to focus on China. But the US very much considers the Indian Ocean as part of the competition with China (usually using the term 'Indo-Pacific'; even the military command there is INDOPACOM); I'd be surprised if it ceded South Asia to China.
> It's coming! CMUSphinx used to have something like this, and there are some [1] solutions [2] on the horizon. > > [1]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/issues/55
> > [2]: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines?tab=readme-ov-file#...

It's interesting as speech recognition has become more popular than ever through services like Alexa, and other iot devices support for OS speech recognition has very little development. Don't get me started with accessibility apis either...

Unfortunately most implementations (especially those that are iot focused) don't have very important features for robust speech recognition.

1. Ability to enable and disable a grammar

2. Modify grammars while the engine is loaded

3. Scoped grammars that are context-specific

4. Recognition callbacks

5. Multiple grammars active simultaneously.

Unfortunately I don't think vosk api will ever support those features. I know there's a few PRs that address a few of those points but have not been merged for years.

Given the criteria above there's very little open source that allows for complex grammars that's easy to run for an end user locally.
Our local vet is now one of those, and it is a disaster. The vets they hire are bad both with the animals and the owners, service is sub standard and they jacked the price by over 50%, the rooms aren't cleaned properly and they try to push you to buy their pseudo "insurance" that would reduce the cost (and is in reality owned by the same company). My understanding is that the previous owner has been disallowed to open nearby when he sold.
From a geographical socio-economic standpoint, debt is not a profit maximising tool.

In India, for example, debt is a last resort means that comes with contempt and social taboos. Yet people have no choice, but to avail debt.
The parrels between what private equity is doing to this country and companies that buy popular extensions then "monetize" them are uncanny [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/malwa...
This is what happens when someone has total control over an organization, they use it for purely their own benefit. This is why I would prefer more diffuse power structures for organizations in general.
How'd you go about getting the list of all the places you can buy the plant?
This is exactly the post I was going to mention.

Now, at age 41, for some reason I can't stand his writing, which I find pugnacious and lacking self-reflection. But at the time in my 20s, his classic early posts on MMM hit me just at the right time, and made such a deep impression on me.

Possibly his writing style is highly effective at introducing a new unfamiliar perspective.
The claims of privacy by Apple are just a facade. I’m done with this walled in ecosystem (jail).

They have good looking products but the company itself is as rotten as their competition.
Copying is usually not necessary. Often times you can swap data and/or shape arguments and get a transposed result out. While it is true that Fortran BLAS only supports col-major, CBLAS supports both row- and col-major. Internally, all the libraries I worked on use col-major, but that is just a convention.
Disingenuous interpretations of the evidence and stating things as facts that are very much still debated or denied by other experts.

A good example: Graeber posits that the European Enlightenment came directly from contact with Native American ideals rather than being a home grown movement. To support this, Graeber repeatedly references a book written by a French Army officer named Lahontan about his travels in North America in the late 1600s[0]. In this book Lahontan has dialogue with a fictional Native American named Adario that is more or less a disguised critique of European society. Adario bears similarities to Iroquois Chief Kondiaronk[1]. It's thought that Adario was a literary device for Lahontan's ideas but Graeber makes a very hand wavy argument that Adario was actually Kondiaronk and the dialogue was real. Graeber then uses this as his main piece of evidence to support his theory about the origins of the European Enlightenment.

I couldn't finish the book because I kept looking up the evidence Graeber was presenting and it usually ended up like the Kondiaronk situation.

Graeber is also very condescending when he's writing about ideas held by other anthropologists (like Jared Diamond), it was off-putting and came off as unprofessional for someone who was supposed to be a leading academic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Voyages_to_North_America
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondiaronk
This case is particularly noteworthy because it involves a series of
requests across different jurisdictions and companies, highlighting the
complex interplay between technology firms, user privacy, and law
enforcement. The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism
laws, despite the primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving
protests and roadblocks, which raises questions about the proportionality
and justification of such measures.
While their mobile OS doesn't differ much in usability from android phones, the ux / ui on their desktop operating system can be quite frustrating, confusing and especially if you come from a windows world, outright weird.
Radically different experience here. When I used DDG by default for a couple years, I'd resort to !g maybe 10-20% of the time. For the last few months with Kagi, it's literally 0 times I've even been tempted. Paying $5/mo to be a customer and not the product, having my privacy respected, and enjoying consistent access to excellent search results is IME equivalent to switching from browsing without an adblocker to using ublock plus or trying reader mode for the first time. It's transformative.
True, but even in states with certificate-of-need laws those only apply to certain types of facilities. A new physician doesn't need a certificate to open a regular medical office.
Well damn, can I just take out $10M in personal loans, tell them my religion doesn't believe in paying interest, buy Treasury bonds with it, and live off the interest?
They are scrollable. We try to be smart with how we capture scroll/touchpad interactions for zoom/scroll so that they feel natural. Thanks for the feedback!
How many places did you call?
Don't forget we are also cooking the planet and destroying biodiversity while we are at it. Greed is destroying many things we can never get back, it's made me not want to work for tech companies anymore as they are fairly emblematic of the problem
Tough luck, maybe Bibi et al should check for underground water chi flows or indian graves or something causing this misfortune!

But hopefully more bombing will fix this soon! Insallah!?
Also: Shouldn't "handling administration" just be a job for some employees? Why does it require a different ownership structure? Why can't Dr. Jones just hire some business school graduates to do the boring business administration and regulatory compliance stuff while he keeps ownership of his practice?
The only monotonically increasing clock available on iOS is based on uptime. If you need to measure accurate timings or guarantee that events are in the right order, you have to use it. As Apple points out in their guidelines, there are many legitimate uses for this information.

Developers can add an offset to the values before sending them off the device, and that might be what Apple wants them to do, but these companies have over a decade of pre-existing code that didn't do this. It's not surprising to me that there are things that haven't been updated yet given that Apple only made these requirements public fairly recently.
> There are many mathematical ways to detect “unreasonable” gerrymandering.

But what does that mean?

Suppose you have a state with four districts and the state as a whole goes for one party by 60-40. You could then draw four districts that are all 60-40 and that party gets every district in the state. Is that unreasonable? It's what you would expect to happen if the state is fairly uniform and you draw the lines completely at random or using a method that otherwise doesn't consider how each neighborhood is expected to vote whatsoever.

Or you could draw two districts that are 20-80 and two more that are 100-0, and then each party gets half of the state, which is the number of districts you would expect based on a 60-40 split because 60-40 is closer to 50-50 than it is to 75-25. Is that unreasonable?

Or you could try to minimize the number of safe seats where representatives don't have to be responsive to voters because they can't lose. The majority party would still have one, but then the other three districts would be around 50-50, with the possible result that the minority party could get 3 of 4 seats. Is that unreasonable?

There is no "correct" way to do it. Each party is going to want the one where they get more seats.

> As for the racism involved, you’d have to be intentionally ignoring all history to pretend that this is just because minority populations prefer Democrats, especially given that the players involved on the Republican side are pretty explicit in their private communications that manage to leak that it’s about race and protecting the white vote.

You're linking to things that don't actually say this. When drawing the districts they have maps where the race of the constituents is known. Certainly so do Democrats. But for this to be their actual motive -- and for it to have any consequence over their stated motive -- they would have to be choosing it instead of some alternative map which is better for them in terms of seats but worse in terms of something like "white representation", e.g. they prefer a district map that would result in two white Democrats over one black Democrat and the other seat going to themselves. Whereas drawing a map that maximizes the number of their own seats over any other consideration is an obvious demonstration of what they really care about.
> What you want is irrelevant

I thought the implication was obvious, but I vote for the person who most aligns with what I want. So what I want is not irrelevant, in fact.

> what's important is who wins the White House, and that's looking very, very much like Trump right now

I can tell from your comment that you’re not new to US elections, so it’s bizarre to me that you’re putting any kind of faith in polling data this far out. If polls could accurately predict who would be president based on approval ratings six months before an election, Trump would’ve won in 2020, and Republicans would’ve had their red waves in 2018 and 2022.

The only polling that actually matters anymore is what’s happening on Election Day. The rest is all fodder for pundits to hem and haw at.

> Face it: the non-Trump voters are not at all united, and a large fraction of them genuinely hate Biden.

This has no bearing on US elections. A democrat voter isn’t going to vote for Trump because they don’t like Biden. They’re going to vote for Biden and, at worst, write some pithy line on Facebook about how they wish they had better choices.
I have had the same experience.
Thanks! I'd say, this is a very complicated problem left to be solved by user. Debezium also does not solve the problem it, and from DBA point of view it is a blocker for adoption. Would be nice to have some solution that would ensure that logical replication slot persists through failover.
Librefox does a decent job at resisting fingerprinting, at least against the fairly standard service that we used at my previous company.

I'm sure with a little effort it could easily be defeated, but for some purposes it's enough.
> In practice, nothing is ever secure,

Well that's clearly not true.
Started filling it out, but... I'd recommend getting someone to review your survey. The "What operating system is your development environment managed through?" question is very ambiguous. Same at access control and dependencies. Another question has only "Option 1" as a choice. If you're doing research, make sure your survey is good quality and actually gives you answers that make sense.
And you got all of that from an article about Google and Facebook, maybe, trying to get around Apple’s attempts to provide more privacy?